Korg Electribe Rotary Encoder Repair
May 1st, 2015 posted under Effects.This Korg Electribe has tubes in it! The rotary encoder knobs weren’t working properly, skipping and changing directions randomly. Turns out the grease they were lubricated with has migrated down into the actual rotary encoder area and was fudging things up good. It is now fixed!
Zvex 2-in-1 fix
March 12th, 2015 posted under Effects.Zvex 2-in-1 pedal came in with the yellow-side non functioning. A FET was replaced and all is well!
Fixing a Roland JX-3P
February 8th, 2015 posted under Effects.This Roland JX-3P came in direct from Japan with some problems in the output stage. This was fixed and now is synthesizing again.
Roland Space Echo RE-501 Repair
January 22nd, 2015 posted under Effects.This Roland Space Echo RE-501 came in for service after sitting in a basement unused for many years. We replaced all of the electrolytic capacitors, rebuilt the motor and replaced pinch-rollers and all felt. A new tape was put in and everything was recalibrated. These units are built like tanks.
Echoplex EP4 in for a tune-up
January 6th, 2015 posted under Effects.All new Nichicon capacitors and a full tune-up on this Echoplex EP4 and it now sounds great. Also took it to the wood shop for some repairs to the cabinet.
Pictures from The Bench
July 28th, 2014 posted under Amps, Effects, Other Stuff.
Sure we love hand-wired amps, but this Marshall 1959 100W Super Lead is a great example of how PCB’s can be done nicely.
Fostex PH-50 headphone amp came in to get some pots and jacks fixed.
New tubes and biasing a Fender blackface Deluxe Reverb.
I rebuilt this pre-war National amp that came in very rough. The outside is still very rough, but now it sounds great!
Krank amps Krankenstein with a nice hand written “dimebag rules” message hidden inside.
This was a customer-built Dumble clone that came in for a check over.
A customer wanted to use his old 16MM projector as a guitar amp, so we added a switch to turn off the projector’s motor.
Tube retainers added to a silverface Princeton Reverb, these tubes ain’t goin’ nowhere now.
